Development
Nintendo first revealed The Thousand-Year Door at the Game Developers Conference of 2003; before release, the game was known tentatively as Mario Story 2 in Japan and Paper Mario 2 in North America, and was revealed to be a direct sequel to the N64 game Paper Mario. A preview of the game was available at the E3 of 2004 with the playable stages including Hooktail Castle and a Bowser bonus stage. The game was released on October 11, 2004 in North America. The Thousand-Year Door was met with controversy in 2008 after Morgan Creek Productions filed a lawsuit against Nintendo alleging that they illegally used the song "You're So Cool" from the film True Romance in an advertisement for the game. Morgan Creek dropped the case six days later, after Nintendo revealed that the advertising agency, Leo Burnett USA, Inc., had licensing for the song.
A sequel to the game, Super Paper Mario, was developed by Intelligent Systems and released for the Wii in 2007. The game has a stronger emphasis on platforming than its predecessor. Super Paper Mario's plot is unrelated to the story of The Thousand-Year Door, but contains many easter eggs referencing past characters from the previous two games.
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